Ardmore

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardmore, from 360 m² to 449,193 m² (44.92 ha, 111 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardmore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Sept 2020Conditional

  permission for construction of single storey extension incorporating renovated existing out-house plus all ancillary works at Ardmore, Croghan, Boyle, Co. Roscommon.

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20343

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardmore.

Recorded monuments

• RO010-038001 Moated site
  Description

  On a slight rise in a wet low-lying landscape with a stream c. 40-50m to the W and N. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 32.5m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank with some bushes (at E: Wth 3m; int H 0.3-0.65m; ext. H 1) at the N, E and S sides which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.2m) at the W side, with complete outer flat-bottomed moats (Wth. of top 4.2-4.8m; Wth of base 3-3.8m; D 0.3-0.4m). There is a house-site (RO010-038002-) immediately outside the fosse at N, visible as a rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 4.7m E-W; 3.4m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.5m; H 0.1m) with an entrance (Wth 1.2m) on the E side. Moated site (RO010-039001-) is c. 100m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

• RO010-038002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a slight rise in a wet low-lying landscape, and immediately N of the moated site (RO010-038001-). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 4.7m E-W; 3.4m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.5m; H 0.1m) with an entrance (Wth 1.2m) on the E side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-039001 Moated site
  Description

  On a slight rise in a wet low-lying landscape. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 23.4m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) and flat-bottomed moat (Wth of top 8.2m; Wth of base 6.7m; D 1.2m) at NW, a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m) and flat-bottomed moat (Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 5m; D 0.55m) at SE, and scarp at NE (H 1.6m) and SW (H 1.2m). In the centre is a house-site (RO010-039002--) (int. dims. 7.5m NE-SW; 5.5m NW-SE) defined by the base of walls (Wth 0.5m) at NW and NE. Moated site (RO010-038001-) is c. 100m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

• RO010-039002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the centre of moated site (RO010-039001-) is a house-site (int. dims 7.5m NE-SW; 5.5m NW-SE) defined by the base of walls (Wth 0.5m) at NW and NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a shelf overlooking marshy land to the N. D-shaped or subrectangular grass-covered platform with lazy-beds (dims 33.5m ENE-WSW; 25m NNW-SSE) that has the straight side with some bushes at SE (L 30m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3.7-4m; Wth of base 1.5m; int. D 1.1-1.55m; ext. D 0.2-0.35m) E-W-NNE, but the perimeter is eroded at NE and it is crossed by a modern causeway (Wth 4.5m) at WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-123 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In a low-lying landscape with higher ground all around. Subrectangular grass-covered mound with some scrub (dims 14.5m N-S; 14m E-W; max. H 1.6m) which has been curtailed at N and E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardmore.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardmore.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ardmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardmore

Area

1,434,443 m² (143.44 ha, 354.46 acres)

Civil parish

Killukin (Boyle Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Croghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Croghan electoral division: 416 people in 152 households; 96% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonshaghan, Croghan, Farranagalliagh, Faus, Knocknafushoga, Lugnashammer

Placenames

Ardmore on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.